Many academics have embraced social media as a tool for networking and disseminating research. Inspired by the overwhelming response we received following a call for twitter tips, we’re asking you to suggest your favourite academics on twitter.
The LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog is preparing to launch an essential, downloadable guide to tweeting for impact.
The guide is aimed at academics, researchers and education professionals who are eager to maximise their research impact with the social media tool, twitter. Including tips on getting started with tweeting, building your twitter network and disseminating research, our twitter guide will be a valuable resource for those new to social networking as well as more experienced tweeters.
The guide will be available to download for free as a PDF next week.
Before launching the guide, we want you to tell us who your favourite academic tweeters are and we’ll include a selection of them in the guide. Which academic shares the most interesting posts? Whose 140-character debates make you think? Which academic’s commentary do you follow daily?
We’ll provide a full list of all those recommended on the blog so make sure you include yourself and all those whose tweets you can’t live without.
Get in the spirit and tweet us your recommendations @LSEImpactBlog, email impactofsocialsciences@lse.ac.uk or leave your comments here.
There are accounts I follow as an academic, e.g. Times Higher and it’s staff, Research Fortnight, etc. I also follow my own college and student media.
But then the academics I follow relating to my field are really specific and I’m not sure it’s worth me recommending them. Part of the point of twitter’s potential use to academics is that it is niche – as is the nature of academic research – and that it is personal. So I have my favourites academic tweeters, but largely because they say stuff that is really useful to me (but probably not to anyone more than a few others in the world) and more often than not, because they are my friends.
@cap_and_gown is great for stories relating to higher education and insightful opinions. @Amanda_Vickery is also a personal favourite
Interested in Bschools and International Higher Education so I follow tweets on these topics:
Well, I like my tweets of course
(@ftherin) so I will nominate myself !
then:
@lseimpactblog (of course)
@C21U very good at retweeting interesting news for me
@theobhe
@insidehighered but it tends to be focused mostly on US news
@DrEducationblog for news on India
@OECD_edu
@GlobalHigherEd
@GdnHigherEd
AND I don’t like people who obviously are retweeting my tweets without acknowledging it with a RT…
Good Luck in the compilation of the list !
@ftherin
Thanks everybody, keep them coming!
for language teaching using IT:
@timbuckteeth @nikpeachey @groovywinkler @tomwhitby @johncanning @warwicklanguage
@paul_crowther @jonmbutterworth @e-astronomer
@edwebb for the Middle East
@BryanAlexander for educational technology
@judyfriedberg (Gdn HE Network Editor)
@cap_and_gown
@martingeorge
@drleehw
@kimmcgowan
@totalprofmove
@VC_UEL (a Tweeting VC!)
@spencro
@markmleach
@wonkhe
@elmsie10
@CAPittard
@kmflett
I’m @plashingvole
@emilybell
@luthervordig
@austinjfisher
@stevegreer
@theprofrog
@imascientist
@dkernohan
@litloveblog
@pzmyers
There are many, but I recommend the following:
@mattlingard
@timbuckteeth
@josiefraser
@courosa
@cristinacosta
@francesbell
@sharonlflynn
@michaelgmadden
@drdjwalker
@boyledsweetie
@topgold
@derekbruff
Thanks for compiling this list!
@catherinecronin
@hjarche
@courosa
@downes
@gsiemens
@GardnerCampbell
@jonbecker
@gcouros
@jimgroom
I’m @dietsociety
American Higher Educators:
@markgr
@techsoc
@courosa
@DanCohen
@reyjunco
@lessig
@eszter
@janineutell
@FondationMSH : French endowment for social and human sciences
@Ifre_shs : French Research Institutes Abroad, for social sciences
@ifporient : French Institute for Middle East, based in Damascus, Amman and Beirut
@rfiea : Network of the French Institutes for Advanced Studies
I like them all (or I would unfollow) but those that I find most tweet-friendly and approachable in their field have been:
@deputymitchell (it was his blog that I originall saw and which inspired me to do one – though he has no idea)
@HGJohn – helpful and enthusiastic
@ICTMagic – fab website
@DeputyHeadDunn – I would like him to tweet more. He is interesting
@Johnmclear – really helpful
@thoughtweavers – helpful and we have shared resources
@monteberte – amusement provided while I learn about twitter/ict/blogging etc
@Larryferlazzo
@rosamariatorres
@henryjenkins
@patxigu
@elemenous
@downes
@gsiemens
@timbuckteeth
@josiefraser
@berrydm David M. Berry
who’s book Philosophy of Software critically investigates digital platforms such as Twitter.
@juspar Jussi Parikka
whose ‘Insect Media’ reveals the insect logic of media technologies.
@onticologist Levi Bryant
@colindotdavies Colin Davies
@kpunk99 Mark Fisher
@profdavidharvey Prof. David Harvey
@manovich Lev Manovich
@shaviro Steven Shaviro
@mckenziewark McKenzie Wark
@josshands Joss Hands
@the_eco_thought Timothy Morton
@cshirky Clay Shirky
@mattpasquinelli Matteo Pasquin
Many others are transmitted via retweets.
@ktenkely
@courosa
@simoncrook
@edudemic
Some gems doing research in water & environmental security
@eco_conflict
@geoffdabelko
@JeffDSachs
@katejneville
@MGhydro
@MichaelHantke
@PeterGleick
@wanderingtracy
@WaterWired
And, of course, I like my own tweets @magsig
Norman Geras is great. @normblog, I think it is.
I tweet about/research higher education (@qui_oui) and these are a few of my personal favourite Tweeters in that area. They’re more favourites because they respond and converse as well as post news; when I want news I can get it from OECD, Times Higher Ed, etc. (I just figure those accounts are fairly obvious!). I emphasised content from “across the ditch” so they’re all in the US or Canada:
@thesiswhisperer & @escapeivorytower. Great links, and advice about a) how to finish your thesis and b) how to get a job after. These ladies are awesome.
@readywriting for university-level writing, education, politics, and lots more.
@mary_churchill who edits @UVenus blog; excellent stuff.
@WorstProfEver for the intelligent snark; we do so need it.
I’d second the recommendation of Norm Geras – his Twitter feed links to one of the best political blogs around. I have to say, though, that I’m still disappointed at how few academic Twitterers there are. I’m based at the OU, and the vast majority of staff on Twitter are still techie or ed techie people – very few humanities or social science academics tweeting about their work ,which is a great missed opportunity, I think.
@wonkwonk_
@joestiglitz
@MarkThoma
@TimHarford
@NYTimeskrugman
@nouriel
@BlanchflowerD
@JustinWolfers
@ceesbruggemans
@RBReich
for political science and international relations – established and emerging academics
@joestiglitz
@jeffdsachs
@gregorydjohnsen
@fareedzakaria
@saskiasassen
@TimHarford
@multilateralist
@smsaidemann
@dandrezner
@profdavidharvey
@santinoregilme
@african_minute
@henryfarrell
@maxboot
@jamesdboys
@lexiherr
@nsrnicek
We (@berfrois) like to retweet all the best academic tweeters.
In addition to people mentioned already here, @RealJDittmer and @TenuredRadical are great.
I enjoy the tweets by @BioethicsCentre. A great mix of interesting signal and supportive noise. @thesiswhisperer generates great content and is doing fantastic work building a sense of graduate research community. Finally, I’m going to shamelesssly plug my tweets: @OtagoGRS for introducing the first “Tweet Your Thesis Conference” amongst other things.
For animal ethics and animal rights philosophy: @garylfrancione
@LSEImpactBlog:
I nominate @Toffeemen68 Ian P. McCarthy, Professor and Canada Research Chair at Simon Fraser University for his outstanding work on Social Networks and Creative Consumers:
http://itdepends4.blogspot.com/
Thanks,
Arie
@ariegoldshlager
Wow, thanks for these. I’m looking forward to checking them out.
Does anyone know where there might be a list of management profs on twitter?
Toffeemen68 Ian P. McCarthy – excellent tweets on innovation- related topics!
I second the vote for @Toffeemen68 Ian P. McCarthy – consistently and frequent interesting tweets on innovation
I would like to nominate @Toffeemen68 as the best academic tweeter. This is Prof. Ian P. McCarthy, Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Beedie School of business at Simon Fraser University. If you want to understand current (and very interesting!) business and innovation topics, this is the tweeter to follow. Also his blog is fantastic! Check it out: http://itdepends4.blogspot.com/
Great academic tweeters (mainly in ethics/philosophy):
@ethicsinthenews
@christianmunthe
@kantian3
@otagogrs (excellent graduate student leadership, support and guidance)
@thesiswhisperer
@philosophybites
@petersinger
I’m digging
@Toffeemen68
@awsamuel
@aaker
My vote is for Ian P. McCarthy @Toffeemen68 – innovative, creative, analytical, consumer-driven, thoughtful and thought-provoking…the list goes on
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